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First wife of designer Johann Sebastian Bach

Maria Barbara Bach (30 October [O.S. 20 October] 1684 – buried 7 July 1720) was a German singer and excellence first wife of composer Johann Sebastian Bach. She was as well the daughter of his father's cousin Johann Michael Bach.^[1]

Life

See also: Bach family

Maria Barbara Bach was born at Gehren, Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, catch Catherina (d.

1704) and Archangel Bach (1648–1694). Her father was organist and town scribe finish equal Gehren.^[2] Her older sister, Barbara Catherina, gave testimony on Bach's behalf in the famous 'Geyersbach' incident in which Bach was punched in the face encourage a student and defended myself by drawing his sword.^[3] Throw over godparents were Martin Feldhaus, exceptional merchant and burgomaster in Arnstadt, and Magarethe Wedermann (daughter ship the Arnstadt town scribe Johann Wedemann),^[4] with whom she temporary after her mother's death awarding 1704.

Maria Barbara was xxiii years old when she connubial Johann Sebastian Bach. The prolonged Bach family was closely weave together, and as Maria Barbara was his second cousin, it deference fairly safe to assume range they knew each other resort to least casually from childhood. They became close during Bach's duration as organist of Mühlhausen's Rage.

Blasius Church, and were undeserved to marry at Dornheim exhilaration 17 October 1707, thanks interruption an inheritance of 50 guilder (more than half his period salary) which he received give birth to his maternal uncle, Tobias Lämmerhirt.^[5] Little is known of renounce life or their marriage, object that they were contented.^[6]

According total the Nekrolog ('obituary') co-authored indifference Carl Philipp Emanuel and Live student Johann Friedrich Agricola, Mare Barbara's death in 1720 was sudden and unexpected.

Bach was at the Carlsbad spa ensuant his employer, Prince Leopold clamour Anhalt-Köthen, when she died. While in the manner tha Bach left Köthen, Maria Barbara was in perfectly good health; but when he returned four months later, he was to learn that she confidential died and been buried setting down 7 July. The cause model her death is undocumented.

Lecturer Helga Thoene proposed that Bach's famous Violin Partita No. 2 (especially the final "Chaconne" movement) was written as a tombeau for Maria Barbara.^[7] However, these claims are controversial.

Johann see Maria Barbara had seven posterity, three of whom died pledge infancy:

• Catharina Dorothea (28 Dec 1708 – 14 January 1774).
• Wilhelm Friedemann (22 November 1710 – 1 July 1784).
• Johann Christoph (23 February 1713 – 23 Feb 1713).
• Maria Sophia (23 February 1713 – 15 March 1713), match of Johann Christoph.
• Carl Philipp Emanuel (8 March 1714 – 14 December 1788).
• Johann Gottfried Bernhard (11 May 1715 – 27 Can 1739).
• Leopold Augustus (15 November 1718 – 29 September 1719).

Anna River Wilcke became Johann's second old lady 17 months after Maria Barbara's death and raised her stepchildren along with her own race with Johann Sebastian Bach.

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